On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:35 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :I often find myself wanting to write shell scripts that do: > : > :... > : > :while: > :do > : report results > : sleep -until_next 10 > :done > : > : > :I have inplemented something like this with a crude > :shell function that sleeps up to 9 seconds to get to > > I think integrating such an option into /bin/sleep is an excellent idea. > I have had need for such a feature myself on occassion. Note that ksh93 has an external command interface which allows the addition of user-defined discipline functions and builtin commands which could allow for these sort of options. > :thirdly: is it worth making sleep a shell builtin? > :running sleep(1) every time is a lot of work for what > :we need. > : > :julian > > I don't think this is necessary. sleep is a ksh93 builtin command. ksh93 also now has a new license the OSI Common Public License, instead of the old ATT-specific license. Also, Glenn Fowler and David Korn seem very open to ideas such as this. /JoeReceived on Tue Feb 01 2005 - 19:23:22 UTC
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